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...Republicans counter that Democratic concerns are ridiculous because no lawful voter should be intimidated. But voters can be confused or frightened. New citizens, voters who don?t speak English, elderly voters or people who don?t understand all the legalities of their rights, can be intimidated by a lawyer or volunteer challenging their right to vote. Many older black voters were alive before Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965, and remember that there were often literacy tests and poll taxes barring their way to the ballot...
...Democrats say that election rules should encourage as many people to vote as possible. While that?s true, it ignores the fact that many voter rolls are not the streamlined, correct lists they should be. They have proved ripe for abuse...
...Anticipating problems, both parties have been getting an early jump by filing lawsuits. If a particular voter?s name doesn?t show up in the rolls on Election Day, HAVA requires states to offer provisional ballots. The ballots will be counted if officials confirm the person is a registered voter afterward. But Republican election officials in several states are mandating that provisional ballots can only be counted if they are cast in the voter?s correct precinct. Democrats are suing, claiming that discriminates against the poor and minority voters, who tend to change addresses more often. A judge in Ohio...
...Washington-based educational groups challenged last month an Institute of Politics (IOP) and Chronicle of Higher Education study that drew widespread government attention for its findings on student voter registration...
...study’s author and an independent social science firm with close ties to Yale have called those criticisms unwarranted and said the study, which reports that a third of U.S. colleges stood in violation of a 1998 voter registration law, provides important public information...